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repugnance
1. The cloth she lay upon was soaked through with the sour repugnance of rotted vegetables
2. His tone showed his repugnance
3. Biting back tears, agony, and repugnance, she knew it would do
4. Gagging with intolerable repugnance, Conan turned to flee the sight; and he was suddenly aware that the pinnacles of Dagon no longer glimmered through the trees
5. Doubtless he pointed with repugnance at the rows of skulls which adorned the walls of the hut and urged Gorm to forgive his enemies instead of putting their bleached remnants to such use
6. Just as she was able to get those grave images out of her mind, the picture of old Samuel flashed through her conscience, along with Paul’s haunting look of repugnance that had been burned indelibly into her soul
7. The point is that the ritual or dance should be done with true repugnance for the thought form and a complete determination to stamp it out
8. But then came Islam; the Persian empire perished, and the repugnance of the Hindus against foreigners increased more and more when the Muslims began to make their inroads into their country; for Muhammad Ibn Elkasim Ibn Elmunabbih entered Sindh from the side of Sijistan (Sakastene) and conquered the cities of Bahmanwa and Mulasthana, the former of which he called Al-mansura, the latter Al-mamura
9. “You thought I would just give you the money to pay them off?” she asked with repugnance
10. desire and wrath are the complements of attachment and repugnance
11. and repugnance, he is happily released from the great fear of repeated
12. of the contradictions of attachment and repugnance, and of happiness
13. The flames of spite and repugnance were clearly apparent on the distorted faces of both men and became translated into vicious, taunting words and malevolent glares
14. at him with all of the hatred and repugnance that she felt for him
15. What had seemed hostility and repugnance to her at first finally discarded its mask and revealed its real face
16. Look at the birth of every other warm-blooded mammal on this planet: and see if they come out of their womb with their faces twisted and distorted into the ugliest possible visual signals and truths of disgust, revulsion, horror, fear, terror, anger, rage, terror, unhappiness, sadness… screaming as loud as they can in disgust, horror, repugnance, rage, anger… with their eyes shut and their faces red… Trying desperately to communicate to the smiling callous monsters around it that it is in pain, that it is terrified, that something is deeply, deeply wrong
17. 'Did you never think she might be telling the truth about what her father did to her?' Rafferty demanded, unable to conceal his repugnance at her giving the nod, as it were, to her own daughter's abuse
18. Yet he could not overcome his sense of repugnance
19. repugnance, no trace of disgust, no tremor in her hand
20. Perhaps it was his duty to tell Razumihin? He thought of it with repugnance
21. He always took her hand as though with repugnance, always seemed vexed to meet her and was sometimes obstinately silent throughout her visit
22. overmasters me; and all I can do is bewail my lot in vain, and idly curse my destiny, and plead for my madness by telling how it was caused, to any that care to hear it; for no reasonable beings on learning the cause will wonder at the effects; and if they cannot help me at least they will not blame me, and the repugnance they feel at my wild ways will turn into pity for my woes
23. In the supineness of her conscience she even took her repugnance towards her husband for aspirations towards her lover, the burning of hate for the warmth of tenderness; but as the tempest still raged, and as passion burnt itself down to the very cinders, and no help came, no sun rose, there was night on all sides, and she was lost in the terrible cold that pierced her
24. Emma gave him back the letter; then at dinner, for appearance's sake, she affected a certain repugnance
25. "I should have distinguished this as a moment of sunshine, a happy period in my life, had not the repugnance the disgusting libertinism of my protector
26. It was with perfect sincerity that I answered "Nothing," and having a great repugnance to consider murder as a factor of politics, I dismissed the subject
27. Let us note among the guardians those who in their whole life show the greatest eagerness to do what is for the good of their country, and the greatest repugnance to do what is against her interests
28. repugnance to: but not enough to contradict the intention of one to whom
29. if all this force of example had not surmounted any repugnance I might
30. In spite of his repugnance to address the guards, Dantes turned to the nearest gendarme,
31. "Because," said the old man, "the natural repugnance to the commission of such a crime prevented you from thinking of it; and so it ever is because in simple and allowable things our natural instincts keep us from deviating from the strict line of duty
32. Any one but a man of exhaustless thirst for knowledge would have had pity on seeing the steward's extraordinary repugnance for the count's projected drive without the walls; but the Count was too curious to let Bertuccio off from this little journey
33. "Oh," said Morcerf, "this repugnance, if repugnance it may be called, is not all on my
34. "We were having a confidential conversation," returned Valentine; "she was owning to me her repugnance to the marriage with M
35. Now I cannot be sure of the approbation or disapprobation of a client who cannot speak, and as the object of his desire or his repugnance cannot be clearly proved to me, on account of his want of speech, my services here would be quite useless, and cannot be legally exercised
36. The abhorrence in which I held the man, the dread I had of him, the repugnance with which I shrank from him, could not have been exceeded if he had been some terrible beast
37. Nothing was needed but this; the wretched man, after loading wretched me with his gold and silver chains for years, had risked his life to come to me, and I held it there in my keeping! If I had loved him instead of abhorring him; if I had been attracted to him by the strongest admiration and affection, instead of shrinking from him with the strongest repugnance; it could have been no worse
38. For now, my repugnance to him had all melted away; and in the Hunted, wounded, shackled creature who held my hand in his, I only saw a man who had meant to be my benefactor, and who had felt affectionately, gratefully, and generously, towards me with great constancy through a series of years
39. During all this time, the general, on whom they thought to have relied as on a brother, manifested evidently signs of discontent and repugnance
40. '" The general appeared to be affected by a nervous tremor, which prevented his answering for some moments; then, overcoming his manifest repugnance, he pronounced the required oath, but in so low a tone as to be scarcely audible to the majority of the members, who insisted on his repeating it clearly and distinctly, which he did
41. I must, however, do him the justice to add that he assured me if ever he had regretted the repugnance he felt to such a step it was on this occasion, because he thought the projected union would be a happy and suitable one
42. Every phase of the situation was successively eviscerated: the prenatal repugnance of uterine brothers, the Caesarean section, posthumity with respect to the father and, that rarer form, with respect to the mother, the fratricidal case known as the Childs Murder and rendered memorable by the impassioned plea of Mr Advocate Bushe which secured the acquittal of the wrongfully accused, the rights of primogeniture and king's bounty touching twins and triplets, miscarriages and infanticides, simulated or dissimulated, the acardiac foetus in foetu and aprosopia due to a congestion, the agnathia of certain chinless Chinamen (cited by Mr Candidate Mulligan) in consequence of defective reunion of the maxillary knobs along the medial line so that (as he said) one ear could hear what the other spoke, the benefits of anesthesia or twilight sleep, the prolongation of labour pains in advanced gravidancy by reason of pressure on the vein, the premature relentment of the amniotic fluid (as exemplified in the actual case) with consequent peril of sepsis to the matrix, artificial insemination by means of syringes, involution of the womb consequent upon the menopause, the problem of the perpetration of the species in the case of females impregnated by delinquent rape, that distressing manner of delivery called by the Brandenburghers Sturzgeburt, the recorded instances of multiseminal, twikindled and monstrous births conceived during the catamenic period or of consanguineous parents—in a word all the cases of human nativity which Aristotle has classified in his masterpiece with chromolithographic illustrations
43. The two ladies, pressing closely to one another, and drawing the bedclothes tightly around them, remained silent to this supplicating voice, repugnance and fear taking possession of their minds
44. Despite her profound repugnance, her body betrayed her, and moisture flooded inside her, easing the friction of his thrusts
45. At that distance they accordingly stood, fixed there by the centrifugal force of the repugnance which the mystic symbol inspired
46. “People of New England!” cried he, with a voice that rose over them, high, solemn, and majestic,—yet had always a tremor through it, and sometimes a shriek, struggling up out of a fathomless depth of remorse and woe,—“ye, that have loved me!—ye, that have deemed me holy!—behold me here, the one sinner of the world! At last!—at last!—I stand upon the spot where, seven years since, I should have stood; here, with this woman, whose arm, more than the little strength wherewith I have crept hitherward, sustains me, at this dreadful moment, from grovelling down upon my face! Lo, the scarlet letter which Hester wears! Ye have all shuddered at it! Wherever her walk hath been,—wherever, so miserably burdened, she may have hoped to find repose,—it hath cast a lurid gleam of awe and horrible repugnance round about her
47. As too great a delicacy of sentiments did not extremely belong to my character at that time, I confess, against myself, that I perhaps too readily closed with a proposal which my candor and ingenuity gave me some repugnance to: but not enough to contradict the intention of one to whom I had now thoroughly abandoned the direction of all my steps
48. The frolic was now come round to me, and it being my turn of subscription to the will and pleasure of my particular elect, as well as to that of the company, he came to me, and saluting me very tenderly, with a flattering eagerness, put me in mind of the compliances my presence there authorized the hopes of, and at the same time repeated to me, "that if all this force of example had not surmounted any repugnance I might have to concur with the humours and desires of the company, that though the play was bespoke for my benefit, and great as his own private
49. And yet when I looked upon that ugly idol in the glass, I was conscious of no repugnance, rather of a leap of welcome
50. No use! An inexplicable repugnance to pronounce the name by which he was known kept him silent a little longer
